Relief from Pain, Return to Activity

LMT #23642

I’m a massage therapist licensed in Oregon by the OBMT and practice here at Heart Spring Health in Portland. For the past decade, I have helped patients manage and overcome acute and chronic pain in Texas, Oregon and British Columbia using techniques based in both Western massage and Eastern energetics and body modalities.

I Hold Space for You to Heal Yourself

My knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and massage techniques are all means by which I’m able to communicate with you more directly than with words. I’m able to “hear” your pain, “see” your restrictions, and “feel” the information in your guarded tissues. My modalities and techniques talk to your body, asking where you feel restricted or out of alignment, then guide you to a balanced state that is uniquely yours. While knowledgeable and experienced, I am only a guide. The ability to heal is in you and comes from you, and if I’m doing my job right, I’m enabling you to operate at a higher level of autonomy in your own body.

My Therapeutic Techniques Operate on Many Levels

Pain is a far more complicated issue than what you experience locally at an injury site. It involves changes in the plasticity of the fascial network, the respiratory and vascular systems, the proprioceptive regulation in your tendons, and your brain’s unique perception of and experience with the pain. The modalities I offer operate at these different levels.

Myofascial release, gua sha, and cupping help to reset your nerve-rich, but vascular-poor fascial network. Gentle relaxation-based techniques help to regulate breathing and harmonize your vascular flow. Passive and active stretching tell your tendons what is the appropriate amount of movement for you and what is too much. And deep tissue, trigger point therapy, acupressure, and tui na massage all facilitate communication between your brain and muscle groups. These help your brain to process the healing messages being sent and signal resetting messages to your body accordingly.

Modalities

Deep Tissue Massage
Myofascial Release
Trigger Point Therapy
Active, Facilitated, and Passive Stretching
Acupressure
Gua Sha
Fire and Silicone Cupping
Tui Na Massage

My Own Healing Experience and Education

My own journey as a practitioner of the healing arts began with my experience as a patient. In 2013, I was involved in a motorcycle collision with a truck that left me unable to walk unassisted for a year. Once my eight surgeries were completed, I found that the greatest aid to my total recovery was the encouraging space that friends and family held for me. The other was the restorative modalities of massage and acupuncture that helped me embrace my body’s own potential to restore both my strength and my range of motion.

One year after my accident, I enrolled in the Lauterstein/Conway Massage School and Clinic in Austin, TX and began practicing massage in the summer of 2015 at Studio Mantra. There I had the opportunity to help people prepare for and recover from sporting events. I also worked in coordination with the space’s yoga instructors to help people improve their movement and flexibility and reduce their chronic pain. In 2017 I moved to Bend, OR, where I added the study and practice of kinesiology, deep tissue techniques, and orthopedic assessment to my offered modalities.

New Opportunities

The following year offered me the life-changing opportunity to move to British Columbia, where I pursued full time acupuncture studies at Tzu Chi International College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. I received my diploma in March of 2021. While in acupuncture school, I practiced massage therapy at a multidisciplinary clinic called Electra Health in downtown Vancouver.

Just as my own experience with trauma informed my approach to rehabilitative massage, my experience with acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has informed the way I conceive the relationship between a person’s physical health and potential to their mental and emotional states, and the energetic matrix that maintains our state of balanced wellness. I studied Chinese herbal medicine from 2021-2022 at Pacific Rim College in Victoria BC. Then, from  2022 -2025 was a Registered Acupuncturist and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner in British Columbia. I’m currently working to transfer these credentials to the US through national certification with the NCCAOM and licensure by the state of Oregon.

Landing at Heart Spring Health

Since returning to Oregon in the summer of 2025 and reinstating my OBMT massage license, I’ve been a provider at Heart Spring Health. Here, I can combine structured, rehabilitative Western assessment and massage with the TCM view of the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit. I look forward to working with you and helping you achieve the greatest potential for freedom in your body and your whole Self.

Other Things I Am and Do

When not in the clinic, I frequently perform onstage as a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter with the groups Dreamsickle, Brigante, WinoVino, the Minor Mishap Marching Band, and The Carnival Band. I love gardening, volunteering at Portland’s Zenger Farm, hiking, biking and swimming in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I value quiet time at home, reading, meditating, cooking, and being with my wife Stefanie, an environmental scientist who is to plants and ecosystems what I try to be to people. But of course, we really just do all of this for the benefit of our beloved tortoise-shell kitty cat, Polly.

Contact and Scheduling

To schedule an appointment, please call (503) 956-9396, email [email protected], or schedule online below. Online scheduling is available for return patients only and not all available appointments may be shown online. When scheduling online, please include a reason for your visit so your provider can serve you optimally and continue to offer an online option for scheduling.

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